Lajos Veress

Lajos Veress (4 October 1889-29 March 1976) was a Lieutenant-General of Hungary who commanded the Hungarian 2nd Army during World War II.

Biography
Lajos Veress was born on 4 October 1889 in Sepsiszentgyörgy, Hungary, Austria-Hungary (present-day Sfantu Gheorghe, Covasna County, Romania). He was from a noble Hungarian family and served in the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I, and from 1935 to 1938 he served as a military attache to Austria. Veress rose to Major-General in 1940, the same year that Hungary entered World War II on the side of the Axis Powers, and he led the Hungarian 1st Armored Division on the Don River front. On 1 April 1944, he was given command of the Hungarian 2nd Army, and he led the Hungarian forces at the Battle of Turda on 5 September-8 October. In 1947, he was sentenced to death for war crimes, but he was later sentenced to life imprisonment; he escaped in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and moved to the United Kingdom, dying on 29 March 1976 in London.